Tag: Niger

The African Union (AU) is made up of 55 member states, divided into five geographic regions defined by the Organization ...

South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party led by Julius Malema has saluted Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso, Colonel ...

The former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been caught attempting to flee from custody in the wee night hours of ...

Former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Wafula Chebukati took a firm stance against a wave of coups that ...

Official suits remain popular among prominent personalities across the world, including African presidents and business leaders. Attendees of high-level functions ...

The African Union (AU) has suspended Niger from the continental bloc with immediate effect following its coup on July 26, ...

The Military in Niger has said it will prosecute ousted president Mohamed Bazoum in what it called “high treason and ...

The military in Niger that seized power from President Mohamed Bazoum closed the country's airspace on Monday, August 7, after ...

President William Ruto on Friday, July 28, called for the immediate release of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum seized by the ...

At least ten soldiers died in an ambush by a group of "armed terrorists" in southwestern Niger, close to the ...

After fleeing the jihadists who threatened their remote village, Aichata Hassan had no idea that another mighty challenge lay ahead: ...

Asked what's on her wish-list for her tiny clinic, Tchimaden Tafa starts to reel off a long string of items ...

The Sahel state of Niger is urging former soldiers and police to get back into uniform to help the years-long ...

A recent study has established that massive floods in Nigeria, Niger and parts of Chad “were made about 80 times ...

Kidnapped, held captive and raped by four guards, Messaouda is now free, but too afraid to return to her village, ...

Observers of troubled West Africa have long fretted that jihadists who have rampaged across the Sahel are eyeing a southward ...

Flooding caused by heavy rains in the West African state of Niger has claimed two hundred lives and affected more ...

Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from devastating floods that have destroyed farmland ...

Hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists have fled a forest enclave in northeast Nigeria, escaping air strikes by the military and ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the international community to "fully invest" to help impoverished Niger fight jihadist insurgents ...

Niger's communications minister has been detained in a high-profile embezzlement case dating from when he ran a state corporation, a ...

The head of France's anti-jihadist mission in the Sahel on Friday said French forces that were being pulled out of ...

Ten villagers in southeastern Niger were killed by suspected jihadists from Nigeria's Boko Haram group, local sources said on Wednesday. ...

Eighteen civilians have been killed in two suspected jihadist attacks in the west of Niger near the Sahel nation's border ...

An air strike by the Nigerian army targeting 'bandits' has left seven children dead and five others wounded "by mistake" ...

The day breaks, and many of the thousands of Malian refugees in Ouallam are already up and about.  Some have ...

Speculation that Niger may become the next Sahel nation to suffer a coup has surged since Burkina Faso underwent a ...